Comments on: Nevada PXE Boot Install from VMware Fusion Guest http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/08/31/nevada-pxe-boot-install-from-vmware-fusion-guest/ I'm getting there. What's the rush? It's about the journey, right? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:55:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Lou http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/08/31/nevada-pxe-boot-install-from-vmware-fusion-guest/#comment-27724 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:28:19 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/08/31/nevada-pxe-boot-install-from-vmware-fusion-guest/#comment-27724 I am by no means a Jumpstart expert, but have this from Thomas Bauer who IMHO is: "I am not familiar with BootSrvA but as far as IP address go, add_install_client uses whatever name service the system is using (/etc/nsswitch.conf). To simplify things, I often set nsswitch.conf on the jumpstart server so hosts just looks at files. Make sure that the machine you are building is in /etc/hosts and that your local machine has an IP address there. "The issue here looks like there is the machines name somewhere next to the localhost entry. I have seen this done accidentally I.E. a host file that says 127.0.0.1 localhost sunhost... Where sunhost is the local machines name. This would cause the issue the guy is seeing. "Let me know if I this isn't it or if I can help more." I am by no means a Jumpstart expert, but have this from Thomas Bauer who IMHO is:

“I am not familiar with BootSrvA but as far as IP address go, add_install_client uses whatever name service the system is using (/etc/nsswitch.conf). To simplify things, I often set nsswitch.conf on the jumpstart server so hosts just looks at files. Make sure that the machine you are building is in /etc/hosts and that your local machine has an IP address there.

“The issue here looks like there is the machines name somewhere next to the localhost entry. I have seen this done accidentally I.E. a host file that says 127.0.0.1 localhost sunhost… Where sunhost is the local machines name. This would cause the issue the guy is seeing.

“Let me know if I this isn’t it or if I can help more.”

]]> by: Deep http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/08/31/nevada-pxe-boot-install-from-vmware-fusion-guest/#comment-27683 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:07:01 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/08/31/nevada-pxe-boot-install-from-vmware-fusion-guest/#comment-27683 Thanks for this very helpful post. I am stuck with a computer without a cdrom drive and want to install solaris on it. I tried to follow this same exact setup but am running into a roadblock - the BootSrvA that add_install_client returns is 127.0.0.1 - and when I boot the computer i want to install solaris to, I get an error (nfs mount 127.0.0.1: RPC: Rpcbind failure: unable to receive). Is there some way I can set the BootSrvA value to be sensible ? Thanks for this very helpful post. I am stuck with a computer without a cdrom drive and want to install solaris on it. I tried to follow this same exact setup but am running into a roadblock - the BootSrvA that add_install_client returns is 127.0.0.1 - and when I boot the computer i want to install solaris to, I get an error (nfs mount 127.0.0.1: RPC: Rpcbind failure: unable to receive). Is there some way I can set the BootSrvA value to be sensible ?

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